I’d heard rumors. They said that he could move decimal points telekinetically, that he owned the global rights to the number three quintillion seventeen, that he could make a penny feel like a million bucks. Everyone knows that money talks, but only he, it was said, knew how to talk back.

Orin Kerr and David Bernstein, of the Volokh Conspiracy, speculate about the peculiar presence of Jews and Catholics on the Supreme Court.